The market
Counted from every board fable12 indexes, right now. Not a survey, not a sample — the actual open requisitions. See the ones open longest.
69,769Open roles
413Companies
44 daysMedian age
2,511Open over a year
How long roles stay open
Every open requisition fable12 holds, by age. Click a band to read it.
Slowest sectors
Median age of an open role, by sector. The cut only these dates make.
- Health & bio70 days
- Hard tech58 days
- Data56 days
- AI52 days
- DevTools52 days
- Fintech50 days
- Infrastructure45 days
- Big tech43 days
- Consumer39 days
- SaaS39 days
- Security37 days
- Enterprise27 days
- Finance24 days
Slowest boards
Where the middle open role has waited longest. Boards with 25+ roles.
EmployerOpenMedian
Fastest boards
The same measure, the other end. These employers close and reopen.
EmployerOpenMedian
Hiring most
Open roles per company. The number everyone has.
By sector
Open roles, not age.
- Big tech25,083
- Hard tech10,525
- AI6,040
- Fintech5,850
- Consumer4,098
- Enterprise3,842
- SaaS2,835
- Data2,614
- Finance2,404
- DevTools1,944
- Security1,940
- Health & bio1,561
- Infrastructure1,033
Where the roles are
Country inferred from the stated location.
Hiring by function
fable12's grouping, read from the role title.
Day by day
Openings and closures we watched happen. Begins when the roster stopped growing.
- 08-20+1,815 −2,383
- 08-21+1,452 −1,559
- 08-22+1,601 −244
How they work
- Unspecified43,407
- On site12,910
- Remote7,913
- Hybrid5,539